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s jave food in a time needing food economy many people are not getting all the nourishment they might from their food it is not how much you eat but how much you assim ilate that does you good the addition of a smalt teaspoonful of bovril to the diet as a peptogenio before meals leads to more thorough digestion and assimilation and thus saves food for you need less xty jsjnorman hall ifapter ix contd v i gratified us our very practical g re am wanted been marching through the rain since early morning but as the sergeant said a bloke standin by the side the road watchin this ere column sweet or churning cream highest pass would think we was agov to a market prices paid we supply cans sundayschool picnic the roads pay express charges and remit daily were filled with endless processions of j mutual dairy creamery co singing shouting soldiers seen from 7435 king st west toronto a distance the long columns gave the londons disguised food mysterious gravies used as camou flage when meat is lacking appearance of imposing strength one thought of them as battalions brigades divisions cohesive parts of a great fighting machine but when our lines of march crossed when we halted to make way for each other what an absorbing pageant of person ality each rank was a series oi intimate pictures everywhere the authors of the scheme say that it the big problem for seven days one restaurant was unatte to obtain fresh meat but searched the markets for tripe liver sausages and other things one day the restaurant could obtain no meat at all so a vegetable dinner of five courses was substituted with a gravy to give the dishes a meat flavor one of the dishes was an onion pie made of the braised vegetable with a generous covering of gravy there was laughing singing a merry minstrelsy of mouthorgans the jollity in my own part of the line was doubtless a picture in little of what was happening elsewhere we were anticipating the exciting couflageisbeingtrkdintheeatliiiiihiil ii ii11 1 if 1 ii1ii i ii hi iii 1 illltllu i buying in toronto f ing houses in london to assist id the s each rank was a series of conservation of food andreports from i is proving successful so welt- liked s are some of the disguised dishes that 5 the demand for them increase even 5 after the real contents become known the scarcity of certain foods has i s articles wanted for cs om jcwury i puul sutwi cuteall sualatarui mornnsi himlewwk ei ola cmnat out olita ofnmesttl watch bin i table war writ or ml bj iipnn to b xl is t jumklhb limited antiqu1c galleries 18 anil 30 couara street toronto oat i beans should not be served as vegetable at a meal where meat is i served because they contain the sam bodybuilding substances meat con- tains times just at hand mae who was made heavy demands upon the reis blown to pieces by a shell a few hours staurants especially those which cater s later was dancing in and out of the ranks singing oh wont it be jovful oh wont it be joyful to the working class of girls who have not trained their palate to do without is meat and to accept vegetarian dishes e the manager of one of these eating j e places there are five in the string and they are for working girls only a iiir standards we hv6d with- the week in the same shell hole under iaimra ted from thein out c w formerly we had same wooden cross stumbled with an i year she had been r isfthlbsolutely essential we exaggerated show of utter weariness jot knowj- whether vas hvjl ytit c in england mi i by comparison but we never knew till now how muddy pvbtnrove sprerdidly a government mud is paternalistic in its solicitude v for our we never knew how muddy mud sjfirit and vaccinated whether fibbed bravely about his age to the re welfare had schooled our bodies to s withstand hardships and to endure privations y in england we had been i inoculated and vaccinated whether oacti 1 we would or no and the result was tt v that fevers were practically pon- c5jppiw existent in the trenches what lit- never i jj s there was was due to in- iilzii clement weather rather than to un- t sanitary conditions although there were sad gaps in our ranks the trench and camp fevers prevalent in other wars were not re sponsible for them bullets shells could be and little charley harrison who had llary a lof trench tad a new how com- m and bombs took their toll day by day avsfss lt so gradually that we had been psof ocea n coub have done j ti t f t th t we had ever crossed ftom j side to the th secu of civiian life fe of pll we ssete to experience the indes- edehre i i er horrors of modern warfare m i at its worst to be living from morn- fil shrapnel anc cobblestones ing untii evening and dusk to ire shipped andmed with ma- r looking up a ffew day wuh a fmegunpuuei feeling of wonder that we had surviv- 7 tommy had a rgynipathy for ed f lfissllu mrtl about the middle of september it cruiting officers trudged contented ly along his rifle slung jauntily over his shoulder and munched army bis cuit with all the relish of an old campaigner several days later he said goodbye to us and made the journey back the same road this time in a motor ambulance and as i write he is hobbling about a london hospital ward one trouser leg pathe tically empty to be continued preston who was killed at the same n we over there orsf england had prepared us time threw his rifle in the air and said that the restaurants supplied outbreak of the war measure for simple and primitive i caught it again in sheer excess of meal including a chove of dishes two she told me of her sfie- but even with such prepara- 1 animal spirits three rollicking i i d have been a beast lluve had constantly to revise down- lads all of whom we buried during waiu oilr efntidnrhd we lived with- vegetables potatoes and greens and a sweet for lcents formerly mon day was a light day because girls us ually had a lunch left from the sunday dinner but- since meat has become j scarce the monday calls are equally j s heavy with the other days j serving from 300 to 500 at noon in j 2 one restaurant has taxed the ingenuity j 5 of the cooks and meat appears to be j s ontario fertilizers west toronto limited canada youll enjoy buying in toronto tao big a stores are so busy and 2 attractive and the range of mer- s chandise is so extensive that it is a certainly a great pleasure buying a in toronto 5 and this pleasure is the greater a because you can stay at the most 3 comfortable of homelike hotels 3 the walkj3r house the house of plenty where every at tention is given to ladles and child ren travelling without escort e and your purchases may be deliv- e ered there for you and relieve you s of all worry e when you come be sure you stay at 1 the walker house i e the house of plenty j i toronto ont iilllllllimillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll ipfc al of service uncertain fortunes of war canadian officer cites a striking ex perience of his own fatalities are freakish things they are not always the heaviest where one would expect them to be says major owen of the canadian forces in france my own first experience un- along the entire 5hkfcark i- in noted with great she fi was a gruelling imtia ssig satisfaction that the shells from our tion the germans must have known ml own batteries were of larger calibre in some fashion that fresh raw troops front the men kplodinv but thjj bihat non j iinmense shell fljis ess than a foiy masonry fly this was a welcome indication that england was at last meeting the long- jelt need for high explosives lloyd george aint been asleep unshaven seer would say nod- his head wisely es a long gettin ready but wen e is r theres suthin agon to drop jre was a feeling of excitement where the men looked to their jhigreater interest they ex- wbfcfi carefully their band- fijsid roon srs of amhiu- flmets and they were luoughtful bout keeping their metal pocket mr- n were coming in at 5 oclock in the morning a few hours after we had taken our posts under cover of dark ness they opened up my company of about 150 men were distributed over a front of- 250 or 300 yards and for an hour and ten min utes the bursting of enemy shells in our lines was so continuous that the sound was a sustained roar explod ing shells blew up the trenches at you will be astonished at the results we get by our modern system of dyeing and cleaning fabrics that are shabby dirty or spotted are made like new we can restore the most delicate articles send one article or a parcel of goods by post or express we will pay carriage one way and our charges are most x when you think of cleaning and dyeing think of parkers let us mail you our booklet of housettold helps we can render parkers dye works iimited cleaners and dyers 791 yonge street toronto imju ijwamejmi warn vi the autostrop safety razor is always in the pink of condition so perfect that once over will remove with comfort every particle of hair it is kept in that excellent condition by means of its strop ping feature it is the only razor on the mar ket that sharpens its own blades automati cally guaranteed to satisfy complete outfit 500 at all stores autostrop safety razor co limited sjs7 dul st toronto oat i rs and their cigarette cases in their 7cifthand breast pockets for any tommy can tell you of miraculous es capes from death due to such a pro tective armoring over the heart- the thunder of guns increased with the cloud of every passing day the fire appear- ie gold in the sun e t0 be evenly distributed over many fleshy peasajit wo- m 0 frontage in moments of eden shoes turned street and ran scene of the jents were so roporlion to making ould tint et comparative quiet along our sector we could hoar them muttering and rumbling miles away to our right and left we awaited developments with the greatest impatience for we knew that this general bombardment was but a preliminary one for the pur pose of concealing until the last mo ment the plan of attack the portion of the front where the great artillery ated concentration would be made and tho infantry assault pushed home then j t normal appearance is that flkm a came sudden orders to move within l should have survived at all 1 iwenlyfout hours the roads were fill- verdun prob had a shell per ed with the incominer troops of a new l v hats tvxision we male a rapid march square yard every day for veeks at nnin right t a railhead entrained and were a time yet somehow the heroic french i soon moving southward by an indirect remained and lived and defeated the d a moment r0 southward toward the sound passed legions of the crown prince up a little 0 t guns to take an inconspicuous on other occasions an enterprise that gging and par ji the battle at loos ing her short intervals isolating the defend ers into little groups i lay beneath the parapet with one such handful unable to make any kind of a tour of inspection every minute i expected we should be blown to pieces i had no doubt that every other man in the company was already dead or wounded the air on all sides seemed a wavering blanket of smoke and flame and flying clods then as abruptly as it started the enemy fire ceased i crawled out of my section of demolished trench and started to look around out of 150 men we had lost only thirty it is hard to explain a situation like that one of the wonders of any modern battlefield pitted with shell holes until not a square yard of soil at the hell the toped as tiiddcnly is and ishting they faminets fnd made old way r lent c pretense i of civilian i impression in ititary activity ah with a mere hand- j 7ful of letters made his morning rounds of echoing streets and a bent chapter x new lodgings i moving in i we were wet and tired so w land hungry for we had left the train superahlc barrier on such occasions nights miles back of the firingline and had the casualtiesare very heavy carries a reasonable assurance of suc cess become a veritable holocuast wip ing out whole companies such occa sions there have been when patrol en countered a planted machine gun and cold or an over the top sortie met an in old man s newspapers hobbled j canadian housewives do not as 1 slowly along the rue sadicnrnot th t a3 bos 88l fe m- v ir war and food series article no 12 soups we jmarclicd back and able in the utilization of leftover billets in the town and scraps and it proves itself an ever meanwhile forth bctwieivb rtweltcs justoutside and the last present help in time of need thintr which we saw upon leaving the j ro cook will make excellent town anihefjrstupon returning sm f almost any materials a was m glk g bad cook will make poor soup from ftgigg cdfvent u the best material although perhaps a pathetic little burial plot filled with the simplest of things to prepare the bodies of women and children soup is quite a test of a womans who had been killed in german bombdj culinary skill a common mistake is to forget that it needs long and al- boil ments of the town and thus for more j gentle cooking soup should be wtadapi owed trimmer rather than to r- ourselves to the changing conditions vigorously of trench life and trench warfare as a substitute for meat or as vrtth a readiness which surprised and stockpot that is the advantage of soup material may be used in it that would otherwise go to waste it should be remembered however that nothing of a starchy or mealy nature should ever go into the stockpot as they are liable to turn sour they may be used in soup but not for stock- making in flavoring soups if fresh herbs or celery are not obtainable use dried herbs or celery seed tied in a piece of muslin this should be removed before serving excellent stock may be made from the peelings and trimmings of vege tables put them in a saucepan with old water bring to boil and aim- s shutgairii meat stretcher soup is unexcelled j mer for about two hours strain the it is wholesome and nourishing the j vegetable mixture through muslin and bones of all meat and most vege- you will have a clear golden brown tables go towards making a good stock ready to mnke into a delicious stock bones of cooked meal and j healthgiving soup it must be rc- mcat scraps of poultry and game membcred however that vegetable should always find their way into the stock will net veep wmr peerless poultry feftce a ttaal fcnaofot netting strongly mado ntl cloae5j ipacpd mikicz ft neon banitrneaicit urge animals oi well i tainll poultry v rjiitinfr- intermmiaws so 12 wire rnde jj by the opilmrthfftsrmm and ir tab itm leljacfmillletxyitralalulltdiaaji0ltilcly tho batmen- moxlo wire feneo company ltd winnipeg wan- hamilton on mmmm unionmade i iila the test 68 lbs to the square inchi under hydraulic pressure is thei test that dobl long overall have been put tol their strength is in the tightlg woven fabric bbbaeaggsnbe v y s2r my overalls and shirts re the best liecause- tbey stand thetcst of the washtubno starch filler or cheap dyes to wash out insist on bob long brand ak yotirdealer for big 11the biff grey overallsthe cloth with the test n my 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